Work in Progress: “Ressentiment”“Philosophical Theories of Decadence” in the Oxford Handbook of Decadence, ed. David Weir and Jane Desmarais, (Oxford University Press).“Death” in The Proustian Mind, ed. Tom Stern and Anna Elsner (Routledge).Art’s Highest Calling (book project on post-Kantian German aesthetics) “The Truth in Nietzsche’s ‘Truth and Lies’”Review of Dominic McIver Lopes, Being for Beauty, in the Philosophical Quarterly

​Honors and AwardsPorter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton University, 2011-12Dissertation fellowship that is Princeton’s highest honor for graduate students. Awarded annually, following nomination by one’s department to four students across the university, one from each division.Graduate Prize Fellowship, Center for Human Values, Princeton University, 2010-2011Dissertation fellowship awarded annually to ten students across the university working on topics relating to the human values.Phi Beta Kappa, Brown University (Elected as a Junior), 2005First Class Honors on Exams, Cambridge University, 2005

Presentations

Papers Delivered:"What was Paterian Aestheticism" European Society for Aesthetics, Warsaw, June 2019"Ressentiment" University of California, Riverside, February 2019“The Idea of an ‘Art-Religion,’” European Society of Aesthetics, June 2018 British Society of Aesthetics, September 2017“The Religion of Tragedy” Tragedy Ancient and Modern Conference, University of Oslo, March 2018​“Nietzsche on Nihilism: A Unifying Thread” Princeton University, December 2017 Post-Kantian Receptions of the Enlightenment, London, August 2017 Boston University, May 2017“Hegel, Art, and Knowledge of the Divine” American Society of Aesthetics, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, November 2017“The Idea of an 'Art-Religion” British Society of Aesthetics, Annual Meeting, Oxford, September 2017​“Normativity and Meta-Normativity in Aesthetics” Aesthetic Normativity Conference, Salt Lake City, May 2017 Varieties of Normativity Conference, Uppsala University, January 2016“‘Against Egypticism’: Nietzsche on Understanding and Defining Concepts” University of Southampton, March 2017 Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, November 2016“Why I am Not a Restrictive Intentionalist” American Society of Aesthetics, Seattle, November 2016 British Society of Aesthetics, Oxford, September 2016 University of Kent, March 2016 Philosophy and Literature Conference, University of Texas, Austin, February 2016 “The Nietzschean Self and the Eternal Recurrence” Conference in Honor of Alexander Nehamas, Princeton University, October 2016“The Uses and Disadvantages of Bildung for Life” Joint Session, Mind Association and Aristotelian Society, Cardiff, July 2016“Nietzsche on the Health of the Soul” International Society of Nietzsche Studies, University of Bonn, June 2016\ Hungarian Academy of Sciences, November 2015 Cardiff University, October 2015 Colgate University, September 2015“Meaning and Culture in The Birth of Tragedy” Temple University, April 2016 University of California, Riverside, April 2016 University of Oslo, May 2015“Beyond Value: Expanding Aesthetic Normativity” New University of Lisbon, December 2015 American Society of Aesthetics, Savannah, November 2015 Aesthetics, Reasons, and Normativity Conference, University of Kent, June 2015 European Society of Aesthetics Annual Meeting, Dublin, June 2015 4th Annual Dubrovnik Aesthetics Conference, Dubrovnik, April 2015 Aesthetic Normativity Conference, Uppsala University, Sweden, October 2014“Nietzsche and the Early German Romantics” British Society for the History of Philosophy Annual Meeting, York, April 2015“Nietzsche on the Decadence of Individuals and Cultures” Interdisciplinary Conference on Decadence, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, September 2014“Nietzsche’s Approaches,” Alpine Seminar, Aldourrie, Scotland, August 2014“Normativity and the Will to Power: Challenges for a Nietzschean Constitutivism” “Nietzsche, Value, and Self Constitution” Conference, Oxford, UK, May 2014“Finding Content in Absolute Music” European Society of Aesthetics, Amsterdam, May 2014 British Society of Aesthetics, Cambridge, UK, September 2013 Nordic Society of Aesthetics, University of Oslo, May 2013“What is Enshrined in Morality?: Understanding the Grounds for Nietzsche’s Critique” University of Sussex, UK, March 2014 Lingnan University, Hong Kong, March 2014“Nietzsche on Decadence and its Remedies” “Nietzsche and Kantian Politics” Conference, John Cabot University, Rome, December 2013 Berliner Nietzsche Kolloquium, Technische Universität Berlin, November 2013“Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose: Friday Night Lights and the Value of Inspiration” [with Errol Lord] American Society of Aesthetics, Annual Meeting, San Diego, October 2013“Kunstreligion Redeemed: From Religion to Art in Wagner’s Parsifal” “Nietzsche und Wagner. Perspektiven ihrer Auseinandersetzung,” Internationaler Nietzsche Kongress, Naumburg, Germany, October 2013“Truth and the Ambitions of (Great) Art” International Congress of Aesthetics, Krakow, Poland, July 2013 University of Leeds, November 2012“Nietzsche on the Standing of Values” Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar, Oxford, November 2012 Princeton-Humboldt Graduate Philosophy Workshop, Berlin, July 2011 Princeton Workshop in Normative Philosophy, March 2011“Nietzsche and the Contingency of Greatness” Evian International Philosophy Colloquium, Evian-les-Bains, France, July 2012“Art as Culture and Culture as Art: Tracing a Theme from The Birth of Tragedy to Nietzsche’s Later Work” European Society for Aesthetics, Annual Meeting, Braga and Guimaraes, Portugal, June 2012“The Grounds for Nietzsche’s Critique of Morality” University of New Hampshire, September 2011“In Defense of Artistic Value as Achievement Value” British Society of Aesthetics, Edinburgh, September 2011“Artistic Value” European Society for Aesthetics, Annual Meeting, Grenoble, France, April 2011 “Naughty Beliefs” 8th Annual University of Miami Graduate Conference in Epistemology, January 2011“Nietzsche’s Cultural Perfectionism” 14th Annual Oxford Philosophy Graduate Conference, Oxford, U.K., November 2010 “The Location of Artistic Value: Against Aesthetic Consumerism” 16th Annual Evian Philosophy Colloquium, “Art, l’ Art, Kunst,” Evian-les-Bains, France, July 2010American Society for Aesthetics, Annual Meeting, Victoria, British Columbia, October 2010 “Nietzsche’s Holistic Perfectionism” “Nietzsche’s Postmoralism” conference, University of Southampton, U.K., July 2010“‘Das Ganze Lebt Überhaupt Nicht Mehr’: Nietzsche on the Decadence of Individuals and Cultures” Joint Conference, European Society for Aesthetics and the Associazione Italiana degli Studiosi di Estetica, University of Udine, Italy, May 2010“Intention and Conversation” 8th Annual Graduate Conference, Brown University, November 2009 British Society of Aesthetics, Annual Meeting, Oxford University, September 2009“Literature and Philosophical Conversation” University of Sussex, U.K., June 2008

Professional ServiceReviews Editor, European Journal of PhilosophyArea Editor, ErgoReferee, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Mind, European Journal of Philosophy, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Ethics; Routledge, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press; Bloomsbury Press; British Journal of Aesthetics; British Journal for the History of Philosophy; Journal of the American Philosophical Association; American Philosophical Quarterly; Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie; Australasian Journal of Philosophy; Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism; Philosophical Studies; Analysis; Nietzsche-Studien, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice; Hegel Bulletin; Journal of Value Inquiry; Philosophical Quarterly; Journal of Philosophical Research; Ergo; South African Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Estetika, Inquiry, Tropos: Rivista di Ermeneutica e Critica Filosofica, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy

Executive Committee Member and Treasurer, Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study GroupPrincipal Organizer, London Aesthetics ForumAdvisory Board, The Alpine Fellowship​Program Committee, North American Nietzsche Society, 2016 Conference, 2018 ConferenceOrganizing Committee, Normativity and German Idealism Workshop, May 2015Member, American Philosophical Association; North American Nietzsche Society; American Society for Aesthetics; British Society of Aesthetics; European Society for Aesthetics